Age thirteen - my formal art education began with oil painting lessons by a local artist.

At fifteen, I attended art boarding school over summer, the principal was the preparatory Grundskolan för konstnärlig utbildning, Stockholm. The season was perfect for plein air training.

The model was Bodil Malmsten, who went on to become a well-known poet. At seventeen, I enrolled in Forum art school, Malmoe. The Vietnam war was ongoing and art became politics.

I left for Copenhagen, where I trained at the Academy of Free and Merchantile Art for three years,

and also got my diploma in book illustration. Later I graduated in science of religion at Lund university, with postgraduate work specializing in “Anders Zorn and his private religion,1860-1920.”.